text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - TEFL Cert in Russia Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in TEFL Cert in Russia Goto page 1, 2 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Russia & C.I.S. View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message karinaJoined: 28 Jul 2004Posts: 2Location: Chicago Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:57 pm Post subject: TEFL Cert in Russia I am very interested in teaching English in Russia. I already work there as a short term missionary several times a year. I was wondering if anyone can lead me towards the best certifcation for TEFL for Russia. Do they accept all certifications? Or which certificate is best? CELTA? TESOL? Other? I would really appreciate any help I can get. Thanks! Karina Back to top tbiehl2000Joined: 22 Jul 2004Posts: 87 Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 7:01 am Post subject: Tefl certificate Hi Karina, I am by no means an expert but I have been doing a fair amount of research on this subject. I have a BA. That is good. Most places want a first degree. Getting certified is the second step (for me anyway). The Celta course is the most internationally recognizable certificate. There is one other certificate that is on par with the Celta and that is the Trinity-tesol certificate. There are schools that offer other certificates and I'm sure most are valid, but I am going to pursue the Celta. I figure if I am going to spend the time and money I might as well get a solid certificate. From what I understand, the Celta, coupled with a 4 year degree, carries a fair amount of weight in the Tefl world. I have only found one place in Russia that offers the Celta and that is BKC in Moscow. Good luck to you Karina!! Back to top bobs12Joined: 27 Apr 2004Posts: 310Location: Saint Petersburg Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:54 am Post subject: As far as I know there are other places that offer the CELTA, but you really need to think- is it worth it? I've never heard of any place that was interested in the 'grade' of a degree, but maybe that's in Moscow. You have to weigh up the cost of the CELTA- don't forget to add travel, accommodation and other living expenses that you'll incur in addition to the course fees- and seriously think about how long you want to teach English for. How much extra per hour will it have to bring you in order for you to recoup the cost? And do you really think a CELTA gained in Russia will bring you so much extra? Come on guys... By the time you've actually earned your money back (most likely in a few years) you'll have so much experience and so many references that your CELTA will be less than secondary. CELTA certificates are not proof of your teaching prowess. As one trainer told me, and I quote, "They prove only that you have the necessary basic skills and the potential to become a good teacher." The truth is that almost any muppet can get a CELTA provided he has the time and the money. All it really proves is that you kept up the minimum attendance, did everything they told you and didn't come to the observed lesson wearing only your girlfriend's underwear. Sorry, on a much much more serious note, TEFL training is fine for those who are nervous about beginning teaching and are self-conscious about their total lack of experience, but the best way to begin is to throw yourself in at the deep end. Take a good grammar book in with you as a life-ring (trust me, you'll need it) for example Murphy's intermediate-level 'English Grammar in Use' (Cambridge University Press, all good bookshops) and you'll be fine. There are other levels available. The stuff at the back of the advanced book has me scratching my head at times Murphy is laid out in such a way that it gives you ready-made lessons. I would have had a much harder time without it in my first few months. There are clear explanations on each left-hand page- these are your presentations to the class. The right-hand pages have good, clear exercises. Photocopy them and hand them out. All you add are some of your own examples, some imagination, and plenty of enthusiasm to get your students talking. You can also bring some reading and listening materials (record a news show on radio or TV). Before you know it you have a top-quality lesson based around a simple grammar textbook. If your school uses 'proper' textbooks, all the better. All the necessary materials should be there, but beware- textbooks can be dull, boring and irrelevant. Start out in your new career by planning your lessons for the first few months- try to imagine how long each exercise will take and make it fit into the time available. Try to start with an introduction and end with a conclusion. That's just about all they'll really tell you in CELTA. I'm sorry but I think it's fair to say it's a waste of money and mainly a way to get flush students on year-out trips to part with mum and dad's dosh. Don't be fooled into thinking that a CELTA certificate makes you an authority in the world of teaching, or in the world of English for that matter. I've seen some of the illiterate duffers that passed through the doors of one institution (I've berated it here too often, so I shan't name it) The best thing to do is just to start. You'd do much better offering your services for free in a public school or a school for the disabled (I can put people in touch with one such school in St. Petersburg, as well as a privately-run orphanage where some free English lessons would brighten up the day for a lot of kids) An internet search will turn up many such places. Don't waste your money on CELTA- it could go a lot further elsewhere. TEFL training schools are cashing in on a growing trend, churning out 'teachers' at a tremendous rate. I have introduced many people to teaching while I've been in St. Petersburg. Not one of them has had any qualification. The thing that will serve you best here is your personality and enthusiasm, not a certificate. Back to top tbiehl2000Joined: 22 Jul 2004Posts: 87 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject: celta...skip it? So the Celta is overrated? Maybe I will skip it and save a few bucks. I have a first degree and no teaching experience. Anyone have an opinion on this? The course is fairly expensive. Back to top tbiehl2000Joined: 22 Jul 2004Posts: 87 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:58 pm Post subject: celta...skip it? So the Celta is overrated? Maybe I will skip it and save a few bucks. I have a first degree and no teaching experience. Anyone have an opinion on this? The course is fairly expensive. Back to top canucktechieJoined: 07 Feb 2003Posts: 343Location: Moscow Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:17 pm Post subject: Well I don't think the CELTA is overrated. It's only a month long, and anyone can understand that you don't learn a whole lot in just a month. What it does give you is a very thorough grounding in the basics of EFL teaching (not English grammar & vocab itself, you are supposed to know that already). Another thing you get for your month and $$$ is proof that you are genuinely interested in EFL as a career, and are not just a fly-by-nighter. There are countries (Far East comes to mind) where you can get a job without EFL certification, but Russia (and other European countries in general) are not among them. By the way, if you do get a job in Russia, I suggest you keep your missionary work out of the classroom. Russia has a 1000+ year old Christian church and the locals don't see much need for something "better". Back to top tbiehl2000Joined: 22 Jul 2004Posts: 87 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:31 pm Post subject: Bobs12 says you can... Do I really need a TEFL Cert in Russia? Doesn't look like it. Just a way to spend my hard earned cash. Back to top bobs12Joined: 27 Apr 2004Posts: 310Location: Saint Petersburg Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:09 pm Post subject: canucktechie wrote: but Russia (and other European countries in general) are not among them... ...keep your missionary work out of the classroom On the first point- I beg to differ, at least based on my own experience. I've made a 'career' out of EFL without any paper to prove it, and unless you want to be DoS or the like, I don't see the value of the certificate. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe St. Petersburg is an exception, but I've worked with a good number of schools here and turned down offers for an even greater deal more. I've been sent to businesses where I've been paid up to twice what the 'qualified' teachers were making. I don't understand where this logic comes from- one thing a CELTA shows the school (if it's streetwise enough to catch on) is that you had the money to do this before you started teaching, and will probably be solvent enough not to be too picky about wages. Trust me, I've seen it, if only in one place, it's the way a lot of places work in Russia. I've heard the line, "but your husband's a businessman, you don't need so much money," delivered to one young lady. I know that in most of Western Europe (bigger cities at least) a CELTA is regarded as the absolute minimum required for teaching in a public institution, and will likely get you a classroom assistant's job for pocket money at best. Note absolute minimum. It's hardly even a qualification and it says nothing even about your knowledge of the language. I know CELTA 'teachers' who don't know the difference between discreet and discrete. And one who thought they were both spelled 'descreet'. I believe (may well be misinformed, I admit) that the European standard is a degree in EFL, usually an MA, which proves that you are a 'real' teacher, and not a CELTA-toting fly-by-nighter hoping to rake in extra dosh on his year out with the aid of a dodgy certificate. Russia, to me, is without a doubt one of those places where a CELTA is little more than an expensive till receipt. On the second point, the author of the first post has been coming to Russia for quite a while and most likely knows where her missionary work is appreciated and where it is not. That said, I wholeheartedly agree with canucktechie. I've worked in a city where Mormons have a strong presence, with their usual lure of free English lessons in return for, well, whatever it is... When word got out that the school where I worked had a native teacher (who wasn't a Mormon) they were almost overwhelmed with applications from students. The folk there would have happily run the Mormons out of town at pitchfork-point had they not been good law-abiding citizens. Making any religious affiliations known to a commercial school is a big mistake- religious rhetoric has no place in the classroom, children don't like it and parents won't abide by it. Letting on that you're a Mormon is nigh on suicidal. However, this isn't really the place for discussing religion Back to tbiehl's question- if you're coming to St. Petersburg (er, you did say that, didn't you?) I can assure you that you'll need those $'s getting yourself established and settled in. In some places a certificate can give you an instant boost on the pay ladder, but again go back to my point about how long you have to work to get that cash back... by that time you'll know a lot more than any fresh-from-the-box CELTA graduate and you should already have been being paid accordingly for some time. Before coming to Russia I almost fell into the CELTA trap because everything I read on the 'net while jobsearching told me I needed it. Obviously the schools have to say that or else they won't attract students. Also the training centres are obviously the ones who proclaim the loudest. Back to top tbiehl2000Joined: 22 Jul 2004Posts: 87 Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:00 am Post subject: Bobs12 I certainly like your style. I'm almost laughing as I read your post. I will probably do the Celta course anyway just in case I want to work somewhere that requires it. Also, I want some training. I don't want to just do the sink or swim thing. I don't care so much about recouping my money. I have lots of Russian friends in St Petersburg so I will knock on a lot of doors there. I should be there (Russia) for the duration of my 30 tourist visa. I'll definitely visit Moscow. I'll 'pm' you before that. I expect to be in St. Petersburg in the latter part of October. I'm very curious about you personally. What brought you to Russia, how long you plan on staying, what kind of job do you have, accomodations etc. Hope you are doing well. tbiehl Back to top zanethJoined: 31 Mar 2004Posts: 545Location: Between Russia and Germany Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 5:15 am Post subject: sink or swim I took the CELTA. I still felt like it was sink or swim. Why not discuss religion on this forum? It isn't a classroom. Perhaps in another thread? Back to top bobs12Joined: 27 Apr 2004Posts: 310Location: Saint Petersburg Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 1:34 pm Post subject: CELTA for Russia Thanks tbiehl, pm me before you come and we can meet for a beer. Make sure you have time to spare if you want the whole story Zaneth- yeah, teaching is a sink or swim thing anyway. I've set up friends in jobs with no prior teaching experience, and they've taken to teaching like ducks to water. I've seen CELTA 'teachers' crash and burn. One thing I think is that CELTA seems to concentrate too much on 'methodology' and theory, and takes a very simple, potentially enjoyable process and turns it into a jargon-loaded, fire-breathing monster. Who cares if the students' L1 keeps interfering with their L2, isn't it easier to say the blasted kids keep speaking Russian? Does it really matter if Olga has a problem with false cognates, when the real problem is that she giggles when you talk about preservatives? And what difference does it make if you can tell a developmental error from an overgeneralisation error if you don't even know the difference between its and it's? If you spend a month teaching someone the theory of swimming before throwing him in the pool, I put my money on him drowning while he tries to remember whether to kick or breathe. If we had to know how to fire the neurons all the way down our arm in order to pick our nose, we'd never be caught out in public again. Teaching is a very natural process that is best developed through practice and guidance. Walking into the classroom wondering whether you should use peer correction on your poor discriminators, or worrying about gathering material for your summative assessment is tantamount to kissing your gluteus maximus goodbye. Discussing religion- I've lost a lot of friends that way... it's a valid topic though- в чужой монастырь со своим уставом не ходят kind of thing? Could be interesting, but I'd rather let someone else open it. I'm in danger of pushing my luck, especially since all my posts at the moment are a bit controversial-ish Back to top CastroJoined: 14 May 2003Posts: 57Location: still Russia Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:11 pm Post subject: TEFL Cert in Russia Sure, you can find well-paid work in Moscow without a CELTA or any piece of paper but it wont be for a reputable organization. Its a fair point that the benefits of a one month training course are limited but I dont think anyone is claiming you finish the course a polished teacher. The CELTA is an initial entry-level qualification, the reason the course isnt any longer and more comprehensive is because the cost would make it prohibitive for most trainees. Remember that an increasing number of non-native speakers take the CELTA. Often they already have a pedagogic education from their own country, they want an internationally accredited certificate and an introduction to communicative methodology. These teachers already have some experience and Ive never heard one of them say the course was a waste of time or money. In the end I guess it depends on your objectives, if you want a career in TEFL or a job with a school which can offer you support, the CELTA or equivalent is a good first step. Back to top bobs12Joined: 27 Apr 2004Posts: 310Location: Saint Petersburg Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject: That's a point I agree on- CELTA is valuable as a qualification for non-native teachers as my Brazilian ex-flatmate will testify. The question of what constitutes a 'reputable organisation' may be open to debate. By reputable what do you mean? Surely reputation doesn't matter if the work is well paid? There are lots of supposedly 'reputable' organisations in St. Petersburg that systematically rip off their teachers (and students) and have a tremendous employee turnover. Plus, I think it's a myth that a CELTA is a stepping stone to an EFL 'career', because it is, as you say, an entry-level qualification. People don't build careers on one-month off-the-shelf training courses. Real EFL qualifications are actually pretty hard to come by, which is why a relevant university degree (a language BA, preferably English with a foreign language, with a one-year teacher training course would probably be a good substitute) goes a long way toward getting a better position. If someone already has classroom experience, he probably wouldn't have much to gain from a CELTA, and would do well to aim higher than a CELTA. There was a while where I was under the illusion that taking a CELTA course would mean I'd be able to cope with any situation, but after very frank discussions with two trainers (with whom I worked at separate times) I realised that it's not quite what it seems. Something reminded me about a hilarious encounter with a Russian teacher of English who accompanied me on a trip to Finland, supposedly in the capacity of organiser rather than teacher. She'd been to some training centre in England which sounded a bit New Age- I wouldn't be surprised if they recommended learning/teaching in a horizontal position with crystals on your forehead in a dark room with whale sounds playing in the background. The said teacher constantly tried to take over classes, tried to teach me how to teach, terrorised a poor bunch of women who didn't speak more than a few words of English, reprimanded me in front of them for translating and explaining grammar in Russian, "They must learn to communicate only in English. Only een Eeeengleeesh!" On a five-day trip to Finland with a bunch of women who had only elected to take an English teacher with them to make the visa process simpler, and, I suspect, for entertainment purposes it was entirely inappropriate to torture them and spoil their time like that. Her 'methodology' wasn't just funny, it was humiliating for the women- trying to teach pronunciation with face-pulling exercises to ladies, among whom some couldn't even say "my name is..." The best bit was when she tried to teach me English, at which point I ordered her to leave the classroom and not to enter in future without knocking. Trying to correct my pronunciation of 'present' so the stress fell on the last syllable, Russian-style, and also to insist that 'present' (correct pronunciation) was actually the right verb for 'giving presents' almost led me to throw her in one of the many lakes for which Finland is much overrated. It transpired that she was trying to impress the women into making a weekly three-hour round trip to take classes with her in her Saturday school. Didn't hear if anyone signed up or not... But that has absolutely nothing to do with the thread topic, sorry. Just an anecdote. However, on a more serious point about getting work in reputable places: Russia is not a place where qualifications are ultimate. In Finland last year I was sent to teach a business English course. So that I didn't panic before I went, the Ben School told me that a gaggle of 16-to19-year-old girls with no prior business experience was waiting for me. I prepared accordingly , and arrived to discover that in fact I had the Moscow State Railway University's department of Economics and Finance in my classroom, with English ability ranging from total zero to a girl who'd been in the States as a youngster and knew her grammar almost as well as me. Not to mention the Dean of the faculty and two of his senior lecturers. I almost drowned in my own cold sweat, especially when I was greeted by the Dean and told how eagerly they were all awaiting the top-notch professional course that the BS claimed to have prepared (which, naturally, resulted in double the usual charge.) However, necessity is the mother of invention, and thanks to the college's resources, the internet, and this site, I tweaked my 50-hour course overnight to suit the new goalposts and got away with it like a true Scotsman. Even the Dean was impressed, so much so in fact that he offered me a job on the spot, teaching English in his faculty with a generous salary. I meekly pointed out that I actually had no teaching qualifications at all. The reply was along the lines of, "Dinnae be daft laddie, this is Russia we're talking about." The moral of the story is that it has nothing to do with paper qualifications. It's who you know and who you are that gets you jobs. The deciding factor in Russia is whether people like you or not. I'd have taken the job at the time had it not been that I wouldn't *spit* on Moscow if it was burning. I don't think you get much more 'reputable' than a state university. Anyone who's been in Russia long enough with their head out of the sand knows that everything is done through contacts (блат- just be careful with your pronunciation ) and the only way to get them is through time and patience. CELTA fly-by-nighters stand little chance of getting the really good jobs because no-one will give them the contacts. Thus they are stuck with searching the Yellow Pages and asking schools if they need some green CELTA-shaped cannon fodder to fire at their no-hope classes that the long-term teachers have given up on, because no school in their right mind would take a CELTA seriously enough to give it a good job right out of the bag with no personal recommendations. You have to start from the bottom in any case, and a lot of people are going to stay there for the duration anyway, CELTA or no CELTA. The only person a total stranger with a CELTA has an advantage over is a total stranger without a CELTA, but there aren't many native teachers in St. Petersburg anyway, especially out of season. The basic jobs are there to be had with or without paper. If castro is right in saying: Quote: Sure, you can find well-paid work in Moscow without a CELTA or any piece of paper then what's the problem? Just for fun, there are some pictures of my State Uni guys here: http://www.visarus.co.uk/bob/mstru.htm Back to top Trojan HorseJoined: 30 Dec 2003Posts: 61Location: Europe Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 5:26 pm Post subject: TEFL Cert in Russia Hi Karina I'd say : save the money and buy a good grammar book, a book of grammar exercises with key at the back and some teacher's manuals for standard textbooks that look good to you. I'd been teaching for a few years before I did the CELTA course. I thought it was a complete waste of money and I never needed the CELTA to get a good job beforehand. When I first started teaching I was just thrown in at the deep-end with a book, told which chapter to prepare and given 20 minutes to do it. That wasn't great, but I honestly think it is one of those things you only learn by doing. From your missionary work, I'd say you have the confidence it takes to go into a classroom and try and make a bunch of strangers relax and get talking. The only real problem is when you get zero preparation time, you're just asked to go in there and cover for someone, using a book you've never seen before. CELTA doesn't prepare you for this! Always good to have a folder of emergency plans for standard lessons (present perfect springs to mind, future, past tenses, vocab building, etc) texts, exercises from various sources that work for you. All you need to do is whip out the right stuff and copy it. Like someone else said, get Murphy, work through it so you have basic grammar straight in your own mind. I think if you have good English skills generally, you like people and you're prepared to put in a bit of preparation time, there's no need to do CELTA honestly. Never heard that it wrecked anyone's life either though. Good luck! Back to top ilugruJoined: 11 Jun 2004Posts: 15Location: Moscow Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject: Well, I'm a Russian teacher doing CELTA at BKC right now. I've taught ESL for 6 years in Russia and have a degree in linguistics (not in teaching though). By no means can I say that doing CELTA is a waste of time/money, though I knew a bit about teaching ESL before. Of course I know most of the concepts, but knowing and using them in your your own Teaching practice are REALLY different. And the tutors here are quite demanding and there's no way you get a "to standard" evaluation if your lesson wasn't proper. I can't, of course, say that I'll be able to find a decent job wherever I like after the course, but I've already had some good offers as soon as employers learnt about my intention to do CELTA "Oh, great, we'll be waiting for you in September!" I can't say I like everything in it and some of my teaching experience doesn't go with what we're told here, but it promts you to think of what you've been teaching so far and why you've been doing this. 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Dementia does not change the need for love and affection. It can, however, affect a person's interest in sex, either increasing or decreasing it. Dementia can also change the person's ability to understand what is appropriate behaviour when in the company of others. For example, if the person with dementia seems to be rubbing his genitals, it might be because he needs to go to the bathroom or because his clothing is too tight. He may even have a genital or urinary infection.
If the problem is with a person trying to undress when it is not appropriate, there may be a good reason, such as being too warm, trying to get ready for bed (even if it is not time for bed) or the clothing may not be comfortable.
Dementia changes how people see things. A person with dementia may forget that behaviour with potential sexual overtones in public is not acceptable.
Tips for dealing with changes in sexual behaviour
Here are some tips to respond to behaviours that are occurring at inappropriate times or in inappropriate ways:
- Stay calm. Do not blow the situation out of proportion. The person with dementia probably does not understand why there is a problem. Remember that she has less control over her needs and urges due to changes in the brain.
- Ignore the behaviour, if it is appropriate to do so.
- Distract or redirect the person with an activity. For example, a person with dementia who is bored or under-stimulated might masturbate as a distraction.
- If sexuality is becoming an intense interest (due to changes in the brain), redirect the sexual energy of the person with dementia with an activity such as going for a walk. If he is constantly initiating sexual advances even after a sexual encounter, reassure him that you just had a lovely time together and propose going to an environment that is not intimate (such as a public place).
- Provide privacy for the person if she is in a public area.
- Leave the situation, if appropriate. Take a break and come back later.
- Give the person with dementia something to hold or manipulate, if the person with dementia is acting in a way that is making others uncomfortable. The person might have a need to manipulate things, or may just be bored.
- Comfort the person. She might be anxious or fearful and may be using sexual outlets as a way to get comfort and feel more secure.
- Gently touch or hug the person in a way that will not be perceived as sexual. What we perceive as a sexual behaviour might be an attempt to connect, or give or display affection.
- Offer a body pillow to cuddle in bed (if the person goes into other people's beds at night). A stuffed animal or a hot-water bottle wrapped in a towel can also provide comfort and satisfy the need to feel a warm body; a pet lying at the foot of the bed can also provide companionship.
- Adapt the environment to the situation. It is often easier to change something in the environment than it is to change the behaviour of the person with dementia. For example:
- If someone is exposing his genitals, consider pants with no zipper, pants with suspenders, or overalls.
- Wearing an apron with pockets filled with interesting objects to touch might divert someone from touching herself or at least allow her to do so more discreetly.
- Putting a pillow on someone's lap can provide a barrier between his hands and his genitals.
- Wearing an athletic cup might prevent a man from grabbing his genitals.
- Do not take it personally. You are not responsible for the behaviour of the person with dementia. The behaviour comes from the illness and is not a reflection on you.
- Consult your physician. Side effects of some medications will lower sexual desire or cause impotency (inability to have an erection). If your partner with dementia is becoming aggressive in his sexual relationship with you, and if non-medical interventions are ineffective, consider talking to your physician, who might prescribe medications to decrease the libido (sex drive).
- Check for signs of depression. People suffering from depression often lose interest in sexual intimacy.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A five-year scientific assessment of California's first marine protection zones established off the Central Coast has found that some struggling fish species are showing early signs of recovery, officials said on Thursday.
Joined by scientists and state wildlife officials, California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird called the research promising, saying the data appear to show Marine Protected Areas are furthering conservation and benefiting the fishing industry's long-term outlook.
California implemented a patchwork of zones stretching from Mexico to the Oregon border where fishing is banned or restricted. The first collection established in 2007 stretches from San Mateo to Santa Barbara counties, and was the target of this in-depth study.
The areas are located next to fishing grounds, and are meant to give species an off-limits fishing zone where they can recover and reproduce to help replenish sea life.
The study found increases in economically important fish species that live in kelp forests, like lingcod and black rockfish, in the protected zones as compared with similar areas outside of them.
The report also found that protected black abalone found on rocky shores within the protected areas increased in size and numbers.
"We hope we don't just make success here, but that other people across the nation and the world (will follow suit)," Laird said.
The scientific data collected for this first report will also be used to help compare conditions now with those found in the future, a key component of gauging the success of the zones over the long-term.
Still, the researchers charged with monitoring the effects of the so-called MPAs say this is only an early snapshot of what's to come, and that many more years of research are needed before they can be sure.
"(The state has) achieved a notable goal," Mark Carr, a marine biology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said. "But there's a responsibility of also identifying just how effective this network is in meeting conservation goals and augmenting sustainable coastal fisheries."
The protection zones are a response to three decades of precipitous declines seen in many California fisheries, said Michael Sutton, president of the California Fish and Game Commission.
"There are more than 30 years in declines in landings and revenues, and those trends were a result of chronic overfishing," Sutton said.
The collapse of fisheries led to widespread economic problems in coastal communities, and some fishermen thought these new no-fishing zones would only make matters worse by restricting their abilities to work.
And, while there are fewer fishers working today off the California coast, officials say there is sign of a turnaround in part due to the new zones.
"The data here suggest the fishing industry is becoming healthier on the Central Coast," Sutton said. "The total and average individual fishing revenues have increased since the (protection zones) took affect here in 2007


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Travis Picking can be used generally to describe any fingerpicking technique where the thumb is alternating with the rest of the strings. This lesson will take the technique all the way back to its roots in Ragtime piano!
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Dave Isaacs is back with his comprehensive series covering all sorts of different ways that Acoustic Guitar presents itself in popular music. Get ready to learn your favorite styles from recognizable...Length: 5:24 Difficulty: 0.5 FREE
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Building on the picking techniques from the last lesson, you'll get to learn a cool, laid back track called "Years Go By". When you're understanding and able to track with the picking concepts from lesson...Length: 13:43 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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We're going to circle back around to fingerstyle in this lesson. This time your fingers get to play melody while your thumb acts as your bass player, keeping steady time.Length: 13:20 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Make an acoustic guitar get a little funky! You'll be applying the rhythmic and creative muting concepts you learned in the last lesson to this groovin' tune.Length: 16:26 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Use open strings while playing up the neck to bring out the resonance of your acoustic guitar. Learn new chord shapes and scale patterns that span the neck and use the open sound of un-fretted notes....Length: 14:32 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Take the concept of using fretted notes and open strings that was worked on in the last lesson and apply it to a soothing little tune.Length: 14:34 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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We're going to return to fingerstyle working primarily with plucked chords. This will be a review of basic fingerstyle, but the fresh vibe created by the plucked chords will present a new challenge.Length: 13:57 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Apply what you've been practicing in the area of plucked chords to this laid back and meditative piece. You'll exercise other fingerstyle techniques as well!Length: 13:49 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Continue to work on fingerstyle, but come at with a slightly different approach. We'll add percussion to plucked chords and subtle melodies within connected chords.Length: 23:17 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Get yourself out of the open position, and move up the neck while retaining the ringing of open strings as well. You'll do this by capitalizing on inversions.Length: 21:45 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Drop your low E to low D and open up a whole new range of possibilities. Dave will go over the tuning process and share some tasty finger picked ideas for you to explore the tuning with.Length: 17:12 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Travis Picking can be used generally to describe any fingerpicking technique where the thumb is alternating with the rest of the strings. This lesson will take the technique all the way back to its roots...Length: 20:15 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Going deeper into the "Travis" style picking, Isaacs will add a technical variation and teach you a bouncy little tune called "Ragtime". Have fun!Length: 14:35 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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We'll return to the concept of moving chords up and down the neck. This time, we'll be in the key of E. We've already done lessons like this on the keys of A and D, so this one should flow nicely with...Length: 20:20 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Apply movable chords up the neck and get a strumming workout at the same time with a track called "Listen Up".Length: 20:23 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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(Tampa Bay Lightning press release) The Tampa Bay Lightning reduced their training camp roster by four today, assigning forwards Chris Durno and Johan Harju, as well as goaltender Cedrick Desjardins to the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League and releasing forward Eric Perrin from his tryout, Vice President and General Manager Steve Yzerman announced.
(BP Note: With this latest news, it's apparent prospect Dana Tyrell has made the Lightning roster for opening night. Congratulations, Dana!)
Durno, 6-foot-5, 223 pounds, has played in 43 NHL games, all with the Colorado Avalanche. With the Avalanche last season, he skated in 41 games, notching four goals and eight points with 47 penalty minutes, all career highs. Durno also appeared in one Stanley Cup Playoff game with Colorado last season. He skated in two games with Tampa Bay during the 2010 preseason and recorded one assist with seven penalty minutes.
Harju, 6-3, 210, played in 55 games with Moscow of the KHL last season, recording four goals and 18 points. He also represented Sweden in the IIHF World Championships this past summer, where he notched four goals and five points in nine games. Before signing in the KHL, Harju spent the previous three seasons with Lulea in the Swedish Elite League. He notched a career-high 27 goals in 55 games during the 2008-09 season. He recorded a total of 47 goals in his final two seasons in the Swedish Elite League. In four preseason games he recorded one assist with a plus-1 rating.
Desjardins, 6-0, 192, has played in 90 career AHL games with the Hamilton Bulldogs, recording a 49-27-5 record, 2.34 goals-against average and a .909 save percentage. Last year he set career-highs for games played with 45, wins with 29, minutes with 2,576, shutouts with six, goals-against average with 2.00 and tied his personal-best for save percentage with .919. He led the AHL in goals-against average, ranked second in shutouts, fourth in wins and was tied for sixth in save percentage. His success earned him an appearance in the 2010 AHL All-Star Classic, in which he was named top goaltender during the skills competition, as well as landed him on the 2010 AHL Second All-Star Team following the season. Desjardins started two games for the Lightning this preseason, recording a 1-0-1 record with a 2.88 goals-against average and an .893 save percentage.
Perrin, 5-8, 178, has played in 245 career NHL games with the Lightning and the Atlanta Thrashers, recording 32 goals and 104 points. He has also played in 18 career Stanley Cup Playoff games with Tampa Bay, recording a goal and three points. Perrin was a member of the Lightning's 2004 Stanley Cup Championship roster. He played in four preseason games this season with the Lightning, registering two assists and six shots on goal.
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Eosinophilic esophagitis is an allergic condition that occurs in the esophagus. The esophagus becomes red and swollen. The symptoms happen when your immune system make white blood cells in reaction to an allergen. The white blood cellsare called eosinophils.
The condition is called eosinophilic esophagitis, or EE or EoE. It can occur at any age and commonly seen in white males.
Symptoms of EoE vary from person to person and may include:
Trouble swallowing
Chest pain
Abdominal pain
Food getting stuck in the throat due to narrowing (this is a medical emergency)
Stunted growth or poor weight gain in children
People with asthma and food or environmental allergies have a much greater chance of developing it.
Your doctor will take your medical history and will likely want to test you for allergies. He or she will probably do an endoscopy. This is an outpatient procedure that involves passing a thin, flexible endoscope with a camera through your mouth and down your throat to look at your esophagus. The doctor will check for physical signs of inflammation and an increased number of eosinophils. To confirm the diagnosis, your health provider will likely need to take a biopsy, or tissue sample, from your esophagus.
For treatment, you will need to work closely with an allergist and/or a gastroenterologist, a specialist in digestive (stomach and swallowing) disorders. They'll help you figure out what substances or foods to avoid. No specific medications can cure EoE, although certain medications, such as corticosteroids and proton pump inhibitors, and eliminating specific foods - diary, egg, wheat, soy, peanut, tree nuts, and fish - from your diet can help reduce the redness and swelling in your esophagus.
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Set in mysterious Ancient Egypt, Assassin's Creed® Origins is a new beginning. Experience a new way to fight while exploring the great pyramids and hidden tombs across the country of Ancient Egypt. Encounter many different storylines along your journey.
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A hurried shot of dinner last night-- tortillas get cold fast!
Yesterday we had to go to town on various bits of business, and we decided to have lunch at a little cafe, the Roadrunner Cafe, that's been in Courtenay for years, attached to a motel, but never really attracted our attention. But I've been intrigued by their new sign "Tortilla Factory" for some time, so we thought we'd go check it out for lunch. It's under new management, a couple and their daughter, it looked like, and the female half of the couple, and the cook, is from Mexico. It's very diner-like inside, with colorful, but bot kitchy, Mexican decor. The menu is small (they serve breakfast and lunch and close at 2 PM) and not terribly vegan-friendly, but, as they advertise, they have a few vegetarian entries and lots of gluten-free choices. One, the Veggi-Lover's Quesadilla, can be made vegan, though, by asking for no cheese and more veggies in the filling. It comes with mildly spicy pureed beans and fresh salsa. (BTW, the tortillas are served soft, not fried, so nothing is greasy!) There is also a cheese quesadilla with a bean sauce. Hmmm, I wonder if they would do the veggie quesadilla with the bean sauce?? One can only ask! Anyway, the service was friendly, the tea was nice and strong and came in a Brown Betty teapot, and the price was right! Of course, I had to take home some fresh tortillas! (Those of you south of the border or who live in Vancouver, may not realize how hard it is to purchase fresh tortillas in small BC communities!)
Their tortillas are now sold at the local HFS, Edible Island, and they make blue corn ones, too!
On the way home, I asked DH for some dinner ideas, and he suggested crepes with asparagus (we had some asparagus in the fridge). But I was still over-the-moon about the fresh tortillas, and wanted to eat them immediately, so I asked, why not asparagus in tortillas instead of crepes? He was all for it, so this is what I came up with in a very short amount of time (making it up as I went). It was very fast and easy and very tasty!
You could use more filling, if you like, and eat it with a knife and fork!
Serves 3
12 small fresh corn tortillas
1/2 cup tofu sour creme (commercial, like Tofutti, or homemade)
2 tablespoons low-fat vegan mayonnaise (my lowfat eggless mayo, OR Reduced-Fat Vegenaise or Spectrum Naturals Eggless,Vegan Light Canola Mayo)
1 tablespoon lime juice
1/2 tsp. or more hot chile sauce or paste of choice
4 tsp. olive oil
8 medium white mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 small onion, thinly-sliced
2 large cloves garlic, chopped
1 lb. asparagus, cleaned, trimmed and cut into 1" lengths
salt to taste
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/2 tsp. hot smoked paprika (pimenton) (you could use chipotle powder for more heat)
OPTIONAL: about 1/2 cup grated vegan cheese (I used white Daiya)
Garnishes (optional):
chopped fresh cilantro or Italian parsley
hot tomato salsa
sliced avocado tossed in lime juice
hot sauce
Make the Crema before you start anything else. (I had to make the Tofu Sour Creme, as well, but that only takes a few minutes and the rest will keep in the fridge for another meal.) Whisk everything together. If you have a small squeeze bottle, scoop the Crema into that.
Heat the tortillas in a tortilla warmer, or warm them in a covered casserole in the oven, OR in the microwave for a minute or two (if you use the microwave, heat them AFTER the Filling is done). Here's some advice on heating tortillas from Steve Sando of Rancho Gordo (author of "Heirloom Beans"). Here's advice on using a terra cotta tortilla warmer in your stove's oven, and here is advice for using it in a microwave. You can use other types of covered casseroles or tortilla warmers. You can also wrap them in foil and use the oven. You could wrap them in cloth and use a bamboo or other steamer. Here is a page with examples of the many ways to heat soft tortillas: http://ask.metafilter.com/16385/Warming-Tortillas.
To make the Filling, heat the oil in a large wok, stir-fry pan or skillet (preferably well-seasoned wok or cast iron skillet, or nonstick pan). When it's hot, add the onion and mushrooms, sprinkle with salt (to help release the juices) and stir-fry like crazy! Add a small splash of hot water if it's sticking. When the onion wilts, add the garlic and stir-fry a bit more. Add the asparagus pieces and stir-fry, keeping the asparagus moving. It's okay of it chars a bit. Sprinkle with a little more salt and the cumin and paprika. Add about 1/4 cup of veggie broth, white wine, or water. Cover and cook over high heat just until the liquid is gone and the asparagus is crisp-tender.
If you use the vegan cheese, you can add it before serving or sprinkle it on top of each serving. My Daiya cheese was frozen, so I crumbled it on top of the vegetables and put the lid over it for a minute to melt it.
Quickly microwave the tortillas if you haven't got them warming already (see above).
For each serving, place 2 hot, soft tortillas on a warmed dinner plate and top each with another tortilla (so you have 2 stacks of 2 tortillas each). Scoop 1/6th of the filling down the middle of each torilla stack. Drizzle of squirt some of the Crema over each mound of filling. Serve immediately and let the dinners add their own garnishes before folding the tacos and eating (leaning over the plate) with lots of napkins! Very satisfying!


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Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is a 2D platformer about an anthropomorphic bunny ruler of Hell who's out to gain back his reputation after embarrassing pictures of him playing with a rubber ducky have leaked out to the Internet. The sheer absurdity of that sentence should give you a little bitty taste of the bizarre gameplay experience packed into this powerful indie package.
Hell Yeah! Revolves around hunting down and murdering (or re-murdering them considering you are already in hell) 100 monsters who saw your embarrassing photo. Though our skeletal bunny protagonist starts completely defenseless, he very quickly finds an arsenal of horrendous torture tools meant to maim in hilarious ways. For example, one of the weapons is a sort of giant saw blade hamster wheel that you ride inside of, totally obliterating all the lesser demons around you.
The game is somewhere between a traditional 2D platformer and a Metroidvania-style adventure platformer. Many of the routes in the game are initially blocked off by doors that only open as you kill more and more of the 100 Internet-trolling demons. I wouldn't call the game linear, but it certainly nudges you along the path that it thinks is best. Besides, many paths require you to already have particular implements of destruction to get through them.
The real charm of the game comes through in the encounters with the 100 demons themselves. Of course, you first have to fight them in boss battles, as you would in any traditional 2D platformer. However, once you have whittled down a boss's life far enough, you will be asked to play one of thirty different minigames in order to kill it. Certain minigames are nothing but small quick time events, but as you continue to play the game, they slowly get more complicated. You might be asked to play a small rhythm game, a Simon-like memory game, or a short first-person or 2D shooting sequence. Heck, you might even be asked to play an old school first-person Dragon Quest-style RPG! All of these games are very quick and easy to play, and they manage to constantly change the gameplay experience, ensuring that Hell Yeah! Never gets old.
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Back from Portland and back to blogging.
What I've been liking this week:
- Reading (real) magazines. I still subscribe to both Food & Wine and Bon Appetit magazines, the print versions of each. I like the feel of real (print) magazines rather than reading articles on the Internet. Not only is the weight of the magazine and the feel of the pages nice, but so are the pictures. You definitely do not see the type of photograph or amount of detail in a photograph on a website. No matter how much the photo was edited, print pictures are always nicer. I feel like you get more of the story with the pictures close up, in your hands, rather than on a screen. I think that although you can read the same articles online or in an "e-reader" format, and still have access to the recipes, it will be a while until I switch over to digital. In fact, I think I'll probably wait until I am forced to switch over to reading magazines on digital; I'll still buy and read the real thing.
- Doing things by hand. I have been baking a lot recently (yes, there will finally be recipes posted), and I have been mixing the dough by hand. It is easy to mix a pie or tart dough by hand, since it is just a few ingredients. It is only slightly more difficult to mix more complex recipes, such as cookie dough by hand, but it can be done. I recently made challah, and I kneaded the dough by hand. Creating dough by hand means taking more time. Really feeling and knowing the ingredients. Knowing what is going into the product. Taking the time to yourself and using that time to concentrate on the simple movement of mixing the batter or kneading the dough. Taking time to think. To think about things in your life. It is a good time to relax and enjoy living.
- Accessories. I usually wear simple outfits, so I like to accessorize, but I try to keep it simple. I add a nice pair of earrings. Sunglasses. A scarf. Gold polish on my toe nails. Recently, I've gotten back into wearing headbands. In Portland, I bought a great peacock feather adorned headband. (Maybe there will be a picture soon.) A small bag with just the essentials (phone/money/keys) in it. Keeping it simple with accessories is important. Sometimes I see people with too much on and it looks gaudy. Keep it simple and it'll go far.
Speaking of keeping it simple, I'm going to keep this post short. I'm sure I'll have more to say next week. You'll just have to wait and see. 🙂


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But first, killing time waiting for spring.
Suuuper excited here
Bustin out!
Chillin on a pile of toys
Looking for spring
If anyone has a built-in playground in their house, please call me!
At the beginning of March I turned 25+5, otherwise known as 30. :)
And I have a confession to make.
I still shop in the juniors department.
It's true.
Not exclusively, though. A cute top here and there.
Found a fun top online at Forever 21 last summer and it was on clearance for $5.
I ordered a large because *typically* juniors sizes run itty bitty. And I have a big rib cage, ok?? ;)
When it arrived I thought it looked a little big. But the cut of the shirt was supposed to be flowy. So I tried it on and it was a friggin' tent! And I had just had Emma and was soooo over wearing big clothes.
I almost took it to Goodwill but the 'diy-er' in me had to keep it just in case I could somehow fix it.
And now I'm finally getting around to making those alterations.
All right, here's the shirt.
And as you can see, I have already chalked a line down each side and pinned where I want to sew. There was no measuring involved. I just eyeballed it.
On each side I ran a straight stitch and a zig-zag stitch down the length of the shirt.
Lastly, I cut off the excess fabric and I now have a better fitting shirt
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S and
W) by using the
((->) a) Monad, and I rolled those improvements into the original post, but these improvements are still in the combinators-as-functions domain.
Two readers, ryani and david, provided implementations for two combinators that I've had difficulty with. I've implemented the "void" combinator from the Unlambda programming language (or as Smullyan calls it, the "hopelessly egocentric" bird) using only the
S and
K combinators. Haskell is (thankfully) not so restricted, so ryani implemented that combinator as a type and then as a class. The thrust of ryani's void-as-type implementation is as follows:
Simple and sweet! And, the ranked type resolves the type-circularity ("void x is of type void"). So, for example:> {-# LANGUAGE RankNTypes #-}
> newtype Void = V { runV :: forall a. a -> Void }
> v :: Void
> v = V (\x -> v)
In my implementation, I represented that the "void" combinator is "enough"> :t runV v 0
runV v 0 :: Void
> :t runV v "hello"
runV v "hello" :: Void
> :t runV (runV v 0) "hello"
runV (runV v 0) "hello" :: Void
... etc ...
K combinators (where "enough" was more
K combinators than applications); ryani takes that exact approach using a class-based implementation:
(so void is represented as the Haskell type and datum> class Voidable r where vc :: r
> instance Voidable () where vc = ()
> instance Voidable r => Voidable (a -> r) where vc = k vc
() (pron: "unit")) e.g.:
As ryani points out, the type-checker supplies the correct number of> vc "hello" :: ()
> vc "hello" 123 :: ()
> vc "hello" 123 (Just k) :: ()
K combinators to match the number of function applications. Neat!
I had left a question on how to implement the
U, or Turing, combinator, and david demonstrated an implementation where the class of all combinatory birds were a type (with two free implementations of good-ole factorial, to boot):
I'm sure both ryani and david would claim that the> data Bird a = B (Bird a -> Bird a) | Value a
> app :: Bird a -> Bird a -> Bird a
> app (B f) x = f x
> lift :: (a -> a) -> Bird a
> lift f = B (\(Value x) -> Value (f x))
> unlift :: Bird a -> (a -> a)
> unlift f = \x -> case (f `app` Value x) of Value y -> y
> -- Uxy = y(xxy)
> u = B (\x -> B (\y -> y `app` (x `app` x `app` y)))
> -- sage1 = UU [geophf mumbles: "Sweet!"]
> sage1 = u `app` u
> -- Yx = x(Yx)
> sage2 = B (\x -> x `app` (sage2 `app` x))
> fix f = unlift (sage1 `app` B (\g -> lift (f (unlift g))))
> fix2 f = unlift (sage2 `app` B (\g -> lift (f (unlift g))))
> facR :: (Integer -> Integer) -> Integer -> Integer
> facR f n = if n == 1 then 1 else n * f (n - 1)
> fac = fix facR
> fac2 = fix2 facR
M combinator (where
m x = x x), so useful in Smullyan for implementing several birds (such as the "void" combinator), is not hard to do in Haskell given the above implementations. Do you see how to do it? Wanna race?


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In recent years, American liberals' love affair with all things contemporary Western European (sans Margaret Thatcher and Pope Benedict XVI) has acquired an increasingly desperate edge. As evidence for the European social model's severe dysfunctionality continues to mount before our eyes, the American Left is acutely aware how much it discredits its decades-old effort to take America down the same economic path. Hence, the ever-more screechy insistence that Europe's existing mess is due to specific, even one-off factors.
Exhibit A in this regard is the New York Times' Paul Krugman. In his latest missive on this topic, "What Ails Europe?" our Nobel Laureate informs us that European welfare states aren't central to the problem. Sweden, he points out, is doing well, despite the fact it has a large welfare state. Instead, Krugman maintains, what truly plagues Europe is a money problem.
Putting aside the fact that Sweden has actually implemented significant welfare reforms and economic liberalization policies since the 1990s, Europe does indeed face huge monetary challenges. Having a common currency while permitting euro-members to violate mutually-agreed debt limits was always a recipe for disaster. Greece could happily splurge on adding tens of thousands of public sector workers to the government's payroll and financing Chicagoesque patronage politics, while Portugal built dozens of now-idle, often half-finished soccer stadiums.
Why? Because everyone knew if things went bad, then preserving the euro (a sacred cow for Europe's political class) from the impact of nations' defaulting meant that heavyweights like Germany would go to considerable lengths to try and prevent a currency meltdown.
Yet this amounts to only a partial – and therefore inadequate – explanation of Europe's present disarray. Moreover, it can't disguise the truth that there's something even more fundamental driving Europe's economic crisis. And this reality is that the Social Democratic project is coming apart at the seams under the weight of the economic policies and priorities pursued by most Social Democrats (whatever their party-designation), including the American variety.
From the beginning, postwar social democracy's goal (to which much of Europe's right also subscribes) was to use the state to realize as much economic security and equality as possible, without resorting to the outright collectivization pursued by the comrades in the East. In policy terms, that meant extensive regulation, legal privileges for trade unions, "free" healthcare, subsidies and special breaks for politically connected businesses, ever-growing social security programs, and legions of national and EU public sector workers to "manage" the regulatory-welfare state – all of which was presided over by an increasingly inbred European political class (Europe's real "1 percent") with little-to-no experience in the private sector.
None of this was cost-free. It was financed by punishing taxation and, particularly in recent years, public and private debt. In terms of outcomes, it has produced some of the developed world's worst long-term unemployment rates, steadily declining productivity, and risk-averse private sectors.
Above all, it slowly strangled the living daylights out of economic freedom in much of Europe. Without Germany (which, incidentally, also engaged in welfare reform and considerable economic liberalization in the 2000s), it's hard to avoid concluding that Social Democratic Europe would have imploded long ago.
But don't take my word for it. In mid-February, the European Central Bank's new president, Mario Draghi, bluntly stated: "The European social model has already gone." That is decidedly not music to American liberal ears. Further distorting the tone, Draghi added: "there was a time when [economist] Rudi Dornbusch used to say that the Europeans are so rich they can afford to pay everybody for not working. That's gone."
Then there are the pointed criticisms of the European model expressed in a recently released World Bank report. Outside the parallel universe inhabited by Occupy Wall Street and assorted fellow-travelers, few would accuse the World Bank of harboring many radical free marketers, let alone the "neoliberal" bogeymen regularly conjured up by European politicians.
Among other things, the report refers to weak work incentives, anemic entrepreneurship levels, feeble venture-capital markets, over-regulated service sectors, European businesses choosing to stay small to avoid compulsory unionization and extra red tape, labor markets crippled by powerful restrictions on companies' ability to dismiss employees, research and development steadily falling further behind America, and ongoing declines in annual work hours. The report also notes that Europe, with just 10 percent of the world's population, accounts for an astonishing 58 percent of the entire world economy's spending on social protection.
Such is the long-term economic price associated with what amounts to many Europeans' near-obsession with securing economic security and equality through state action. It also has made a continent that once literally ruled most of the world into a textbook example of the basic un-workability of the Social Democratic dream.
Hence, it's little wonder that Krugman and others dismiss those who warn of disturbing parallels between Europe and America as having "no idea what they're talking about." The purpose of such remarks is to shut down discussion – just one of American liberalism's many illiberal traits – in the face of awkward truths and facts.
In a way, we're been here before. Prior to Communism's defeat in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, many American liberals were in denial about the performance of command economies. Another Nobel Laureate, the late Paul Samuelson, argued in the thirteenth edition of his renowned textbook Economics, that "the Soviet economy is proof that, contrary to what many skeptics had earlier believed, a socialist command economy can function and thrive." Providentially, this edition was published in the year, ahem, 1989.
Such tragically mistimed observations, however, reflected decades of ignoring the realities of life in command economies. In the tenth edition of Economics (1976), for example, Samuelson claimed, "It is a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable."
Vulgar? A mistake? Well, I guess all those secret police, informers, "re-education facilities," barbed-wires, and Soviet troop concentrations in the "workers paradises" were just there for decorative purposes.
In the real world, of course, there are genuine arguments for us to have about what Europe's present drama means for America. Even some of Krugman's New York Times' colleagues have engaged such questions, albeit rather tentatively. But to just deny that Europe's failures don't represent an important canary in the tunnel for America surely reflects a disposition from which American liberals regularly accuse their critics of suffering: instinctual closed-bloody-mindedness.
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When the Hennessey CTS-V Sport Wagon squared off against the Porsche 911 Turbo, some complained it was the slightly older 911 Turbo. Fair enough. Here's the 650 hp wagon against a Nissan GT-R.
Though both are roughly $80,000, they're about as far apart on the performance car spectrum as possible. One's a V8-powered American muscle wagon and the other's a Japanese V6-powered high tech super car killer.
We jokingly call the GT-R Godzilla, but it doesn't stack up to the giant wagon anywhere but on the drag strip, where the CTS-V wagon just squeezes by with an 11.7-second time to the GT-R's 11.8-second run. We're certain the stock GT-R would spank the CTS-V on a track with turns, but it's still pleasing to see a wagon dispatch such a worthy competitor, even in such a ridiculous competition.
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Are you a feminist?
A loaded question. But why?
When I was in college, I drove a car I inherited from my mom, a cute Cabriolet convertible which came affixed with one piece of flare: a bumper sticker that read, "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." Radical indeed. A neighbor asked me if I was going to take it off. Take it off? "Well, you're not a feminist are you?" she asked. I was too stunned to come up with a response other than, "I'm female–of course I am!"
At its core, that simple sentiment–that women are equal people–is, indeed, what the movement is about. But somewhere along the way, it came to mean a great, tricky, amorphous Something Else. Something that carries a stigma, to this day. Something that has young women yes- or no- but-ing, when they're asked whether or not they claim the F-word.
Even Lady Gaga, who, as far as I can discern, isn't exactly afraid of scandal, as it seems that she's famous primarily for her disinterest in wearing pants, went out on a limb to clarify that she isn't a feminist. In an interview, she says:
You see, if I was a guy, and I was sitting here with a cigarette in my hand, grabbing my crotch and talking about how I make music 'cause I love fast cars and fucking girls, you'd call me a rock star. But when I do it in my music and in my videos, because I'm a female, because I make pop music, you're judgmental, and you say that it's distracting. I'm just a rock star.
-Are you also a feminist?
I'm not a feminist–I, I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars, and muscle cars.
What, exactly, is her point? That a feminist, by definition, must hate men and beer and bars and muscle cars? In one sentence she makes reference to the inequality of the treatment she receives, attributing it to her gender; yet in the next, she disowns the label 'feminist' on grounds best described as woefully shallow and stereotypical?
And yet. Who can blame her, or any woman for that matter, when no less than the likes of Karl Lagerfeld, head designer for Chanel (which, it should be noted, was created by a barrier-busting beauty, Coco Chanel), lobs a cutting insult at feminists in the upcoming issue of Harper's Bazaar–in an interview in which he was role-playing, answering the questions as though he were Coco Chanel herself. When asked if Chanel was a feminist, Karl-as-Coco said:
I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
And any smart marketer/designer/schoolyard bully knows, the quickest way to a woman's Achilles is to call her ugly. And if the immediate association we're encouraged to make is "feminist=ugly," well, it's no wonder that women don't want to go there. But I think there's more to it.
Still fuming over Lagerfeld, I came across a nugget in yesterday's Daily Mail, entitled "Let's put the fun back into feminism." Fun and Feminism in the same sentence? Yes, let's. In it, writer Hilary Hazard puts it thus:
But [our mothers' and grandmothers'] success has proved a double-edged sword for our generation. Women have come so far that it's easy to think we've reached the end of the road. The burning sense of injustice that fueled feminism through the fifties, sixties, and seventies has given way to apathy.
So perhaps our reluctance has more to do with this notion that feminism is passe than that it makes us ugly? That reminded me of a comment from Lauren O, in response to Barbara's recent post in which she cites an article she wrote about how today's young women refuse to identify themselves as feminists. Lauren, a recent college graduate, hit the nail on the head, saying:
It's great that feminism has come far enough that they don't have to deal with many of the egregious injustices that women in the past had to deal with (and probably an indicator of class and race). On the other hand, it's really the cleverest and most sinister way to stop feminism before it even begins: just convince young women that there is no sexism and that their lives are perfect. You can go on paying them less, under-representing them in government, and treating them like sex objects, and they'll see it as equality.
Touche. And then there's also something else. Something that has a little to do with the judging we women are so quick to heap upon our sisters. After the requisite mentions of beauty pageants, who is and isn't protesting them, and the beauty industry as a whole, Hazard delves into meatier territory, taking on none less than icon Germaine Greer, and a dig she recently threw at Brit Cheryl Cole, calling her "too skinny to be a feminist," and Hazard's own not-so-pretty treatment of a pretty office worker named Anna, who, loaded down with coffees, crashed into the glass doors of a crowded conference room, a la Ugly Betty:
The feeling of 'us' and 'them' which still divides women by image is all in our heads. The so-called glass ceiling which keeps women in their place might actually be a glass door which, had I held it open for Anna, might have made her life a lot easier.
It's essentially the same conclusion Barbara came to yesterday, in her post about the trouble with typecasting:
I so agree with what she says about room for personal contradiction when it comes to feminism. (And, in fact, didn't a certain intolerance for that contradiction once push some feminists out of the tent?) But it's the either/or that gets us into trouble.
So maybe it's not the ugly or the worry of appearing passe that's the problem but this notion of either/or, and the problems with labels in general (John Hughes would be so proud). Maybe by picking fights with each other or fixating on labels, we're doing nothing but diluting the issue. And the issue is this: we, women, are at a unique place in history–we're children of a young movement, as Greer herself said, a movement still with work to do. Work involving how to contend with the choices we face: to one generation, to have options at all was the Holy Grail. But now that we have them, we're stuck, reportedly unhappier than ever, stuck in analysis paralysis, and full of judgments we thrust upon each other. Is there any question there's more work to be done?
And why have we stalled? I tend to think it's partly because we've seen some success, and partly because we narrowed feminism's definition so much that we don't think there's enough room to fit us all, with all of our contradictions and nuances. But imagine where we'd be if we stopped picking sides and signed on to the same team, one with room for everyone from Coco Chanel to Lady Gaga. Could it really be possible?
Maybe. But I think Coco would probably prefer that Ms. Gaga put on some pants.